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Specialist healthcare

• Specialist services

  Ensuring patients with rare conditions or those who have highly specialist needs can access the highest possible standards of care.

• Screening programmes

  Enabling health boards to deliver effective, consistent and coordinated screening programmes to detect early signs of disease.

• Financial risk share

  Pooling funding across Scotland's NHS boards to share the cost of expensive therapies for rare disorders.

• National networks

  Connecting a range of stakeholders to improve and deliver safe, effective healthcare that's designed around patients, carers and families.

• National planning

  Planning tomorrow’s NHSScotland services today, national planning takes a proactive approach to identifying what healthcare we'll need in the future.